{"id":15758,"date":"2016-10-29T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15758"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:37:51","slug":"scary-halloween-hi-jinks-with-a-spring-loaded-scary-mask-driven-by-a-raspebrry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15758","title":{"rendered":"Scary Halloween hi-jinks with a spring-loaded scary mask driven by a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Pride (he of the Pi-driven Connect 4 game<\/a>\u00a0along with other wonderful hacks!) has been at it again. In the hope of scaring the begeezus out of trick-or-treaters, he’s hooked up a motorised mechanism to his Pi that will launch a spring-loaded trellis. On top of the trellis is a terrifying<\/em> ghoul mask. An ultrasonic sensor detects people approaching and the trellis is then activated, with accompanying scary sounds, of course. It runs off batteries making it ‘headless’ (ha-ha). You can read about the build on David’s blog<\/a>\u00a0and see a video of it in action below (thanks David for uploading!):<\/p>\n